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EP 1075436 B1 · Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company

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  • Filed April 23, 1999 and granted December 4, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 23, 2019.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by October 23, 2024.
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FiledApril 23, 1999
PublishedFebruary 14, 2001
GrantedDecember 4, 2002
Term endedApril 23, 2019
Application numberEP 99913531
Classification (CPC)B65D83/0894 +1 more

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